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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
the question now should be, did the legal aide resign because he made a mistake, or because he screwed the GOP out of a talking point?
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the real tragedy of this kind of political monkeybusiness is that otherwise good people fall on their swords out of respect for the structure of command. It's very shameful, in my opinion, that a memo that was likely circulated and agreed upon by the congresspersons who read and really were attempting to accumulate political capital from this situation, would then disavow any knowledge of it and slough responsibility onto a minor character in the overall governance structure.
So the focus has shifted from a political majority trying to seize more capital from a powerful and personal tragedy to an errant subordinate.
This is analogous to the intelligence fiasco where a bunch of people resigned, although now they are being vindicated. But no one's responsible. OK.